Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Bits And Bobs":
"Why the fear that details may not be conveyed accurately?"
Oh, I don't know....it might just have something to do with all the other times you've twisted information to serve your own self-interest.
Staff's probably grown tired of you taking what they give you and having you turn it around to attack
them with it
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I have published the foregoing as an example of how accusations continue and the facts were regularly distorted in the past term.
No specific example of inaccuracy was ever provided.
When a resolution is passed by Council it is owned by Council. Criticism of a political decision is not criticism of staff .
Readers may recall halfway through the third year of the last term when I requested a list of all legal invoices paid during the term. Expenditures from the public purse are a matter of public record.
Three times, I was assured the documentation was forthcoming.
A resolution moved and seconded by Mac Eachern and Wilson contrived to provide a reason eventually not to provide the information.
Staff had no reason to be afraid of how information might be perceived. The CAO had been employed by the town for six months , the solicitor and Finance Officer both followed his appointment.
No, indeed. It wasn't staff who needed to keep information under wraps.
It was the dreadful duo themselves,who were hell bent on legal devices, no matter how much of the public resources they used for the purpose.
Our new Council should certainly require figures of actual spending as opposed to budget forecast, to make sense of the requirement for legal services in 2011
If I recall figures correctly, a legal reserve of $100K in 2009, was emptied in 2009. In 2010, a reserve of $250K created that year was also used up in the same year, over and above the annual budget estimate.
That means in those two years alone $350K more was spent than anticipated needs reflected in the budgets, by the legal department.
I have yet to discover where, in last year's spending, is the total figure paid out in wage settlements in the last term. I think that might come under the heading of legal spending as well.
There has never been any question about whose pocket was emptied.
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